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As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.

Don Meyer

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
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Let your players know that you love them.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'
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Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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